Etymology : Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian; akin to Sanskrit gadhya what one clings to; more at GOOD
Pronunciation : 'ga-[
th]&r
also
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. assembly; meeting; convention; cluster, collection; pustule, abscess. gathering\gath"er*ing\, n.
2. the act of collecting or bringing together.
3. that which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) a crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) a charitable contribution; a collection. (c) a tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.gathering \gath"er*ing\, a. assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.gathering board (bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.gathering peat. (a) a piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) in scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the highlanders.
4. The act of collecting or bringing together.
5. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
6. A charitable contribution; a collection.
7. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
8. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. a group of persons together in one place.
9. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
10. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
11. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
12. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
13. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
14. To gain; to win.
15. To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
16. To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
17. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
18. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
19. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
20. To collect or bring things together.
21. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
22. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
23. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering.
24. See Gather, v. t., 7. the act of gathering something sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" look for in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" draw fabric together and sew it tightly assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together".
25. 1. A gathering is a group of people meeting together for a particular purpose. the twenty-second annual gathering of the South Pacific Forum.
26. If there is gathering darkness, the light is gradually decreasing, usually because it is nearly night. The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk. see also:
gather.
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